2. What does the black dotted line indicate in the software?

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The black dotted line is known as the ‘bleed area’. The bleed area may be trimmed or cropped off during production!
The bleed area will vary from product to product depending on how much bleed is needed to produce the product.
In other words:

• Everything outside of the bleed area may be cropped or cut during production.
• Everything inside of the bleed area is safe.

So please make sure that you do not have important parts of images or any text in the area outside of the black line. All important areas of your design must lie inside the black line and red area to avoid any cropping.

⊗ When checking the preview proof of your project before ordering, the bleed area will be included in the preview.